The Rudiments of English Grammar and CompositionRivingtons, 1882 - 204 sider |
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... called a Verb . Thus in the sentences just given the words is , creep , and build are Verbs . 5. The Subject of a sentence is , in simple statements , such as those which we are now considering , the name of that about which we assert ...
... called a Verb . Thus in the sentences just given the words is , creep , and build are Verbs . 5. The Subject of a sentence is , in simple statements , such as those which we are now considering , the name of that about which we assert ...
Side 3
... called the Predicate , from a Latin word meaning declared or asserted , and the Verb is , connecting the Subject and the Predicate , is called the Copula or Link . So , again , in the statement Hares are timid , the Verb are forms the ...
... called the Predicate , from a Latin word meaning declared or asserted , and the Verb is , connecting the Subject and the Predicate , is called the Copula or Link . So , again , in the statement Hares are timid , the Verb are forms the ...
Side 6
... words he or she ; and all these words are called Personal Pronouns , that is , words denoting persons and used instead of Nouns . 17. Most of the Personal Pronouns have distinct forms for 6 THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . Personal Pronouns.
... words he or she ; and all these words are called Personal Pronouns , that is , words denoting persons and used instead of Nouns . 17. Most of the Personal Pronouns have distinct forms for 6 THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . Personal Pronouns.
Side 8
... called Abstract Nouns . ( 4. ) NUMBER OF NOUNS . 19. The form of a Noun , which refers to one person or thing , is called the Singular Number ; as , man , tree : the form , which refers to more than one , is called the Plural Number ...
... called Abstract Nouns . ( 4. ) NUMBER OF NOUNS . 19. The form of a Noun , which refers to one person or thing , is called the Singular Number ; as , man , tree : the form , which refers to more than one , is called the Plural Number ...
Side 14
... as , wisdom , strength , weakness , beauty . 35. An Adjective which , being joined to a Noun , limits the application of the Noun , is called an Attribu- tive Adjective , because it points to some attribute of 14 THE SIMPLE SENTENCE .
... as , wisdom , strength , weakness , beauty . 35. An Adjective which , being joined to a Noun , limits the application of the Noun , is called an Attribu- tive Adjective , because it points to some attribute of 14 THE SIMPLE SENTENCE .
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action Adjectival sentences Adjective Adverbial expression Adverbial sentences Adverbs Auxiliary Verbs Brutus Caesar called co-ordinate sentences Complex sentence Compound connected Copula Dative denote dependent sentence doth emphasis ending example fear Gent give Greek word meaning hast hath hear IMPERATIVE MOOD Indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD inflexions Intransitive jests at scars king knew Latin limits the Noun lord Macaulay Merch Mids names never Nominative NOTE Noun-sentence Object Old English older writers omitted Passive Voice Past Indicative PAST PARTICIPLE Past tense person or thing Personal Pronouns plural Possessive preceded Predicate PREFIX Prepositional Infinitive Prepositional phrase Present principal sentence Relative Pronoun scheme of analysis second person second sentence sentence introduced Shrew simple sentences Simple Statement Simple Tenses sometimes speak speaker stands stem Subject SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Subordinate Conjunction subordinate sentence thee third person singular thou art tive Transitive Verb vowel Weak Verbs words that limit
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Side 153 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Side 47 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...
Side 187 - I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle; I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick; if he but blench, I know my course.
Side 123 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Side 91 - Muse The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Side 163 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Side 135 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Side 173 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 48 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Side 120 - They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look : for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.